Steam-boiler



UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

-WILLIAM C. STUOKEL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

STEAM-BOILER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 586,879, dated July 20,1897. Application filed November 30,1896. Serial No. 613,914. (Nomodel.)

Z22 (@ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM C. STUCKEL,

of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have inventedanew and Improved Steam-Boiler, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improvedsteam-boiler arranged to evenly and quickly distribute the heat of theburning fuel to all parts of the water to insure a quick generation ofsteam.

The invention consists of a series of heatdistributing rods extendingthrough .the wa- (er-compartment in to the heat-in gchamber to take upheat and distribute the same to the water surrounding the rods.

The invention also consists of certain parts and details andcombinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter andthen pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of the improvement, and Fig. 2 isa sectional plan view of the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

The steam-boiler shown is provided with the usual shell A, a fire-box13, connected by a smoke-fine C With a hood D, carrying a stack E fortheescape of the smoke and gases. A

series of distributingrods F, of copper, brass, or other metal, extendthrough the water and steam compartment and through the crownsheet H andthe head I to be heated at their projecting ends by the heat emanatingfrom the burning fuel in the boiler, so that the heat is distributed bythe rods F to the water surrounding the rods in the Water and steamcompartment G to insure a quick generation of steam.

By reference to the drawings it will be seen that a large number of suchrods F are employed, and consequently the heat carried by the rods fromthe fire-box B and the hood D into the Water-compartment to be taken upby the water and steam insures a uniform heating of the Water in theboiler and a consequent proper generation of steam.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- A boiler having an upright shell with a stackcentrally coincident thereto, a fire-box at the lower part of the shell,a smoke-flue running centrally through the shell from the crown-sheet ofthe fire-box to the upper portion of the shell, a head within the upperportion of the shell and through which the upper end of the smoke-fluepasses, the smokeflue being approximately alined with the stack, and aseries of distributing-rods running vertically parallel with thesmoke-flue and passing through the crown-sheet and through the head, thedistributingrods completely surrounding the smoke-flue and run nin gcontinuously through the water-space of the boiler, substantially asdescribed.

VILLIAM O. STUOKEL. lVitn esses JOHN F. IIOKE, GEORGE M. ABBOTT.

